The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-08-25
COST OF A SWELL WARDROBE.
ENhorbitant Prices Which tho New York
Tailors Charge for Good Clothes.


Tailors Charge for Good Clothes.
New YORK, August 18.-I have heard
o half dozen men say recently that they
found they could save money by going
to London to buy thoir clothing. It is
true of actors particularly, who are
Obliged to have large number of suits
on hand, but the economy is just as
evident among less extensive purchasers.
Herbert Kelley went to England this
year for the sole purpose of roplenishinv
his wardrobe.
"One can get good clothes on this
side of the water, undoubtedly, he said,
'but the trouble is they cost triple what
they do in London. A crack tailor here
charges $40 for pair of trousers, and
that sum will buy three pair in Eng
| land"
Ihe tallors of New York are constant
ly growing moro exhorbitant in their
prices. There are of course huge en-
perur1s or bazars where clothes are
clipped out like shoe pegs and sold like
hot mullins, but it goes without saving
that we'll dressed men do not patronine
them.
A man to earn tho distinction of being
pronounced well dressed in New York
must exercise great care not to dress too
much or too highly, He must spend
considerable sums upon his attire, but
nothing like the amounts set down of
late In numerous articles that are going
about IN the daily papers concerning
the cost OF well-dressed New Workers.
wardrobe. The statement that ut least
twenty Thousand men hero spend five
thousand dollars year on their cloth
ing causes an aching void to replace
ones heart. I'm not an expert on
clothes, but realize the absurdity Of that
report Suppose man buys eight suits of
clotnes year, which is on extraordinary
number, the cost would bo about as fol-
lows:
"o lrocH hu1ts. ................. $24O
IT. IT. GIvonlh8 sulG, ~............. l2O
Two business suits. s. 100
Three cutaway suits. ...... 30
This would call for less than $500 of
the 50, 600 year, leaving the overcoats,
yachting flannels and underwear to come
out OF the trifling balance Evon under
tnese conditions man would have from
10 to ~ tits In his wardrobe, for they
would accumulate rapidly with one
coming In every SIX weeks. In sober
1act tailor who succeeds in yanking
what the gamblers calls q "merry little
'>i" o't0 VI IL CtlSlOulCr regards
hlm with reverence, respect and af1cc
ton. There is limit to such ultcrior
and interior trappings rs ovcrgaiters,
scarfs and linen. A thousand dollars q
year will dress the Prince of Wales or
the most impressive of Union or Knicll
erbocker Club men. If he buys his
toggery i'll London half the slim will
prlng the same results, though [ thor
oughly believe that there are better
taliors in New York than across the
water. Two mon who sat on tho rail of
a yacht the other day were comparing
the prices of their yachting hanncls,
The younger of them, who had Just re-
turned from six years term at Oxford,
said to the other:
"What did you pay for that white
suit?"
at was made to order, " said the other,
surveying his fanneIs complaccntly.
"Thc coat and trousers were made bv
my tailor for $45, and the shirts we're
$3.50 to order"
"Wcll, this outfit" said the Oxford
man, stretching out his athletic legs and
exhibiting tlannels of far better texture
and tit than those Of the other man, |
"cost, including shirt, trousers and coat,
made by crack London tailor. lust $li |
III our money"
That's the reason it pays to go abroad
to buy your clothes.